How To Achieve A Higher Standard In Statement Taking

How To Achieve A Higher Standard In Statement Taking

We’re going to repost our guidance around statement-taking again on the blog this month because once more we’re left completely aghast at the standard of evidence-capturing through statements and interviews that we’re experiencing and having to redo on behalf of our solicitor clients or commercial clients.

In most of the incidents we’ve been called in on over the last three months alone, its because our clients have been presented with interview transcripts or statements obtained that are woefully below the evidential standard needed to see through a clean and just result. And the most maddening thing is that the interviewers and statement-takers are often HR professionals or retired police officers. Read more about How To Achieve A Higher Standard In Statement Taking

EFFECTIVE INTERVIEWING AND STATEMENT TAKING

EFFECTIVE INTERVIEWING AND STATEMENT TAKING

We work with a variety of clients throughout Newcastle and Tyne & Wear, professionally interviewing and recording evidentially sound statements under a multitude of circumstances that can range from employer/employee disputes and road traffic collisions through to litigation cases and victim of crime impact assessments.

Our background in policing and justice studies along with years of experience in interviewing and compiling statements for civil and criminal court puts us confidently in the position of knowing what is required to make the statement and the time it took to record worth its existence… Read more about EFFECTIVE INTERVIEWING AND STATEMENT TAKING